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- 15 Jun 2022
Smart Home Devices Market Sees Strong Growth Across Middle East, Turkey, and Africa
The Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) smart home devices market continues to register significant gains on the back of increasing awareness and improving end-user experiences, according to the…
- 23 Feb 2022
Google Opens Portal for News Initiative Innovation Challenge, Seeks News Innovators in Middle East, Turkey & Africa
The Google News Initiative (GNI) has announced the opening of the third Innovation Challenge in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa. The selected innovation projects will be eligible to receive up to…
- 3 Apr 2024
Google Taps Noor Al-Sulaiti to Lead Cybersecurity Business Development and Government Relations for Middle East, Turkey, and Africa
Google Cloud has announced the appointment of Noor Al-Sulaiti as Head of Security Business Development and Government Relations for the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa region (META). Noor, an…
- 14 Jul 2021
How 22 Media Innovators Were Selected for the Second GNI Innovation Challenge for Africa, Middle East & Turkey
Google has announced the names of 22 media innovators set to receive $2.1 million in funding through the second Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Challenge for Africa, Middle East, and Turkey.…
- 26 Mar 2015
Dell Breaks New Ground with META Business Region Creation
Dell, on Wednesday, announced it has combined its business in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa to create one new business region: META (Middle East, Turkey and Africa), which will be led by Driss…
- 29 Mar 2016
MEA & Turkey Annual Mobility Spending to Top $185Bn in 2019- IDC
Annual spending on mobility across the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) is expected to reach $185 billion by 2019, according to IDC's new 'Mobility Spending Guide'. This represents a 10.2%…
- 23 Jul 2013
Tablets Popularity Hurting PC Sales across MEA, Turkey
Middle East and Africa region's PC market experienced another quarter of steep decline in Q2 2013 as the proliferation of mobile technology continues unabated, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek can report.…
- 8 Oct 2014
IT Steers Middle East, Africa's Manufacturing Sector Growth
IT spending by manufacturers in the three core manufacturing countries of the Middle East and Africa (MEA), Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa, is set to grow almost 40% over the next five years,…
- 17 Sept 2014
Nigeria Excluded, Finance Sector Spurs Mobility, Analytics Investments
IT spending by financial institutions in the big four markets of the Middle East and Africa (MEA), Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the UAE, and Turkey, is set for strong year-on-year growth of 10.8% in…
- 23 Feb 2021
Google Opens Portal for Second Google News Initiative in Africa
Google has called for application for the second Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge in Africa, the Middle East and Turkey with an open call for projects that increase reader engagement and…
- 13 Sept 2017
GE, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Ink $25m Agreement for Digital Solutions Across Africa
GE has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise that will bring GE Digital’s breakthrough digital industrial solutions at scale to the Middle East, Africa &…
- 1 Aug 2019
Dell Technologies Adds Russia to its Digitally Advanced Markets in META Region
Dell Technologies has announced that its Middle East, Turkey, Africa (META) region is now being expanded to include Russia, with the change coming into effect immediately. The re-mapping of the CIS…
- 29 Apr 2016
Key Takeaways from BETT MEA & Turkey Leadership Forum 2016
Education and policy leaders drawn from Middle East, Africa and Turkey, recently, met at the inaugural BETT Middle East Leadership Forum held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates with the sole aim of…
- 11 Jun 2014
MEA PC Market Set for First Sign of Growth in Seven Quarters
Middle East and Africa PC market (including Turkey) is tipped to end a dismal run of seven consecutive quarters of year-on-year declines in Q2 2014 by posting long-awaited growth of 3.2%, according…
- 25 Jun 2019
Google Dangles $150k on Journalists As GNI Innovation Challenge opens in Africa
Google has announced that the Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Challenge is open for application submissions in the Middle East, Africa and Turkey. The company disclosed this on Tuesday…
- 20 May 2020
Public Cloud Proves an Exception to the Rule as Spending Grows Following COVID-19
Public cloud spending in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) will increase to $2.8 billion this year as demand increases following the spread of COVID-19. That's according to the latest…
- 27 Jul 2016
UBA Denies Involvement in Turkey Coup
The United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc Tuesday denied any involvement in the recent failed coup in Turkey, saying a Turkish newspaper report linking it with the high treason was false and spurious. A…
- 24 Dec 2018
Wearable Devices Market Enjoys Strong Growth in MEA & Turkey - IDC
Shipments of wearable devices in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) region reached 1.13 million units in the third quarter of 2018 (Q3 2018), according to the latest insights from…
- 22 Nov 2016
IDC Predicts ICT Spending in META to Hit $243Bn in 2017
ICT spending in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) is forecast to total $243 billion in 2017, according to the latest insights has presented by International Data Corporation (IDC).…
- 11 Dec 2015
IDC Proffers Solutions to Africa's Failing MVNO Environment
Despite the strong growth of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) globally, the majority of MVNO efforts in Africa to date have been unsuccessful despite happening in countries offering…
- 16 Apr 2019
Google Expands GNI Innovation Challenge to Africa
Google has announced that the Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Challenge is launching in the Middle East, Africa and Turkey in June. The GNI Innovation Challenge is inviting proposals…
- 19 Feb 2019
IDC Expects Increasing Complexity to Push IT Security Spending in Africa, Others
According to the latest insights from International Data Corporation (IDC), spending on IT security in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) is set to cross the $2.7 billion mark this year, up…
- 12 Oct 2021
How Kaspersky Blocked Over 30,000 Mobile Malware Attacks in Nigeria, Kenya & South Africa
Over 30,000 out of the more than 206,000 mobile malware attacks blocked by Kaspersky solutions for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region in just 6-months measured, between January to June…
- 28 Jul 2022
5 Nigerian Firms Among 34 Recipients of 3rd Google News Initiative Challenge
Google has announced 34 recipients of the third Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Challenge drawn from Africa, Middle East, Israel & Turkey. The recipients, among them 21 journalists and…
- 29 Apr 2013
Efficient Bandwidth Drives Cloud Computing- John
Sony Mathew John is a senior research analyst with International Data Corporation (IDC) Middle East, Turkey, and Africa and is responsible for conducting research on IT services and contributing to…
- 12 Oct 2021
Kaspersky Blocks more than 30 000 Mobile Malware Attacks Combined in Nigeria, Others in 6-months
Out of the more than 206 000 mobile malware attacks blocked by Kaspersky solutions for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region in just 6-months measured, between January to June 2021, over…
- 23 Apr 2013
MEA PC Market Slips by 14.1% in Q1 2013-Report
The Middle East and Africa PC market experienced a significant decline of 14.1% year on year during the first quarter of 2013, according to preliminary results released by International Data…
- 6 Oct 2022
Meta Hosts XR Exhibition to Showcase Winners of the Future Africa Grant for Extended Reality Creators
Meta has unveiled an exclusive XR exhibition featuring the six finalists from the ‘ Future Africa: Telling Stories, Building Worlds’ programme, focused on supporting the next generation of Extended…
- 21 Feb 2015
Samsung Goes ‘Beyond The Limit’ in New Initiative
Samsung Electronics is introducing a range of products to the African market at the sixth annual Africa Forum in Antalya, Turkey, as the company continues to contribute to the continent’s ongoing…
- 14 Jun 2016
Cisco Says IP Traffic in Africa Set to Soar
Africa will experience the highest IP growth rate globally at 41%, according to the Cisco Visual Network Index Complete Forecast for 2015 to 2020. According to the Index the continent's IP traffic is…